Hi Yannick, I can open it to everyone again. What do people think?
It is ok if we backup... Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 à 09:51 +0100, yannick a écrit : > Hi ! > > Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 à 10:34 -0800, David M. Kaplan a écrit : > > Hi Yannick, > > > > Thanks for explaining why text and video have problems. Your > > explanations make sense. > > You're welcome. > > > > > As for the wiki, perhaps it would be best to host it on another site > > that would allow community involvement on editing? There are free wiki > > services out there, but we could also try talking to gnome, ubuntu and > > redhat to see if they would host it. I think this would really make > > generating documentation much easier and allow developers to spend more > > time on developing. I personally would contribute to a wiki, but it is > > really hard to email wiki changes unless they constitute entire new > > pages. > > I agree with you; this would be much easier to allow people directly > edit the wiki, but as i told you the wiki was like this before and was > hacked, which really was annoying to the person in charge of it (Damien > Sandras) as he has *lots* of other things to do (coding, administrating > ekiga.net, etc.). Since then, editing the wiki has been restricted to a > circle of few trusted people using passwords. See below... IMHO, having > it hosted elsewhere, isn't really a solution as the problem is *who* > will be in charge of it. Who will dedicated his time to this task > assuming the person is a wiki master who can deal with > "sabotage"/hacks ? I'm not that kind of people... In the other hand, the > Ekiga team see now the wiki system as a very good way to document Ekiga. > It seems, we will use it more and more... > > > > > Another approach would be to allow editing from a very controlled group > > of people - there is a way to have mediawiki email passwords just to > > those you want (i.e., we could make people request accounts via email > > and only after they are well known) and you can set up the wiki so that > > it only operates over SSL for password protection. Just a thought.... > > > > ...this is mostly the way it works. Damien Sandras, as he is the wiki > administrator, granted me access to the wiki giving me a password and i > started working on it. > > If you want to directly edit the wiki, ask Damien. I can't give you > access to it. > > Perhaps, we should open a new page in the wiki providing infos how to > grant access to edit the wiki for people willing to help on it... > > Regards, > Yannick > > > > Cheers, > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ekiga-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > > > -- > Me joindre en téléphonie IP / vidéoconférence ? > sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ NOVACOM : http://www.novacom.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
